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May 2, 1992 · This film focuses on five short stories that happened at almost the same time and on the same night to five taxi drivers in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Directed and written by Jim Jarmusch, it is not a pretentious film, quite the opposite, and does what films should do: entertain us with five good stories.
Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Lisanne Falk and Alan Randolph Scott.Blu-ray (Criterion) https://www.criterion.com/films/227-nigh...
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Spanning time zones, continents, and languages, NIGHT ON EARTH winds its course through scenes of uproarious comedy, nocturnal poetry, and somber fatalism, set to a moody soundtrack by Tom Waits. Jarmusch’s lovingly askew view of humanity from the passenger seat makes for one of his most charming and beloved films, a freewheeling showcase for the cosmopolitan range of his imagination.
Aug 24, 2017 · Criterion's DVD of Night on Earth would seem to be the first Region 1 release of this amusing 1991 comedy, one of Jim Jarmusch's most accessible films. . Essentially five episodes taking place in and around taxicabs in five American and European cities, the film presents five sets of characters in free-standing skits, and allows Jarmusch to let loose a dozen or so actors in situations that ...
May 8, 1992 · Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth" assembles five moments in time, in taxicabs, in the middle of the night, in five of the world's cities. At the end, we have learned no great lessons and arrived at no thrilling conclusions, but we have shared the community of the night, when people are unbuttoned and vulnerable - more ready to speak about what's really on their minds. In Los Angeles, a casting ...
Five taxi drivers across the world have remarkable encounters over one eventful night. In LA, a talent agent decides her cabbie should star in her next movie. In Rome, a non-believing driver finds a dead bishop in his back seat. Meanwhile in Paris, a beautiful blind woman distracts her cabbie…
